>Re not getting indentation: To have Xalan indent the generated
>document, you have to set two separate values. First, you need to set
>the standard XSLT indent="yes" flag in your <xsl:output/> element.
>Second, since Xalan's currently using 0 as its default indentation
>depth, you need to reset that value by using the indent-amount
>property; there's an example of this shown in
>http://xml.apache.org/xalan-j/usagepatterns.html#outputprops
>We may want to consider changing the default indentation amount at some
>point, simply because 0 *does* confuse people.

HISTORICAL NOTE: The default value was originally 4, and was
deliberately changed to 0. This way, indent="yes" gets you new-lines
but no traditional indenting, while indent="no" eliminates the
(generated) new-lines. I agree that we should say more about this in
some Web page.
.................David Marston


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